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Oh, that Potato. He's not much to look at, he's covered in dirt each time you meet him, and he's even a little chubby around the middle. Besides he has that annoying habit of clinging to your waist and never letting go.
All your friends think he's not good enough for you, and they don't mind saying it to your face.
So why is it then that each time you determine to be good and eat "healthy," you are left with a Potato-shaped hole in your tummy that no other food will fill?
Probably because no one packs as much flavor muscle as good ol' Potato does. He appeals to the pickiest, finickiest tastebuds. He is delicious baked, fried, boiled, roasted, sauteed, smothered and mashed. And when you're feeling a little blue, you know he's just the one to give you that sure-fire pick-me-up on a plate.
Here's an open secret that most of us tend to ignore: Potato's actually quite a health nut. It's not his fault that people skin him alive and then drown his deliciousness in fat, when he can be just as fabulous in his jacket and fat-free. And he is naturally fat-free, never mind that chubby middle of his. He's loaded with potassium, fiber, vitamins B and C, iron, and magnesium. Besides, for heaven's sakes, he is a vegetable. Aren't you supposed to be able to eat those without feeling like a pig?
I know I come to the spud's defense all too often, but that's because I love him truly, madly, deeply. I always have. As a child, the only thing I ate when I ate outside the home was potato chips--thick wedges of potato that were India's version of french fries. My dad can even tell you a story about how, the first time I decided to make potato fries at home, I ate them all up before I had finished frying the last batch. Really. And Desi could tell you how every ounce of resistance and resolve I have melts when I know there's a bag of potato chips in the kitchen cupboard -- and how I don't rest until each little salty bit is safely in my tummy. (I think it makes him a little jealous.)
But notwithstanding my love for unhealthy avatars of the Potato, I have over the years tried to satisfy my craving for him by cooking him up rather healthily in my kitchen. As you might have guessed by now, one of my constant quests is to try and make guilt-free potato fries that I can eat any old time I feel like it.
And I think I've found just the recipe.
To make my guilt-free potato fries, I boil my potatoes before I roast them to golden deliciousness in an oven with just a touch of sprayed-on oil. The boiling serves two ends: boiling potatoes removes a lot of the starch in them which in turn brings down their glycemic index (that's a good thing). And when you remove the starch, the potatoes get even crispier when you bung them into a screaming-hot oven.
This recipe is about technique, really, so read it carefully. Have a great weekend, all!
Baked French Fries
- 2 russet potatoes , scrubbed clean under running water.
- Oil for spraying
- Salt to taste
- Preheat an oven to 450 degrees (I use my little toaster oven)
- Cut the potatoes into french fries, as evenly as you possibly can.
- Place the fries in a pot with enough water to immerse the fries completely.
- Bring the water to a boil and turn off after two minutes.
- Immediately drain the potatoes and place them on a kitchen towel to soak out any moisture in them.
- Spray an oven-safe baking dish lightly with oil. Place the potatoes on the dish in a single layer, taking care not to overlap them.
- Spray on another light coat of oil. Place in the oven and bake 20 minutes, flipping over once halfway through the baking. Since individual ovens can be temperamental, start checking your fries about 10 minutes into the cooking so they don't burn.
- Season the fries lightly with salt as soon as they come out of the oven. Eat, and-- if possible-- share.

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Guests: Susi Amendola, C-IAYT / Certified Yoga Therapist
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It is time to transform your day! With a history that dates back to 3000 B.C., it was developed as a way to achieve harmony between the heart and soul. Today it is known to build strength and flexibility while reducing stress.


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TRON (TRX) to be Listed on PIEXGO Soon
In a recent tweet, Justin Sun, the Founder of TRON Foundation, and CEO of BitTorrent announced that TRX would be available to be traded against USDT on PIEXGO on May 6, 2019 (SGT).
#TRX will be listed on @piexgocom, #TRONICS can trade TRX/USDT on May 6, 2019(SGT). #TRON $TRX pic.twitter.com/jEJYlhzMiF
— Justin Sun (@justinsuntron) April 30, 2019
PIEXGO is a "new-generation world-class financial ecosystem for digital assets" which is committed to enabling safe, fair and open digital asset services.
Also Read: TRON Postpones $20 Million Incentive Plan
TRON Foundation recently announced incentive plans for early USDT-TRON adopters.
In the official Medium article pertaining to the announcement, the team said:
"Since June 25, 2018 when TRON launched its MainNet, it has been running smoothly and stably for over 260 days by 27 community members; TRON's ecosystem is constantly expanding, with hundreds of DAPPs on the TRON network; TRON has become one of the largest decentralized networks in the world. In order to give back to the community members, and celebrate the cooperation between Tether and TRON, on March 21, Singapore time, TRON announced a total of $20 million incentive plan, to encourage users to convert their USDT holdings into USDT-TRON, so that they can enjoy a faster, more economic and more concrete payment experience."
Talking about the partnership with USDT, the team said:
"In early March, TRON has announced its partnership with Tether to issue USDT that anchors the USD with the rate of 1:1, which will help TRON greatly elevate its existing decentralized applications (DApps) ecosystem, improve overall value storage, and increase Decentralized Exchange (DEX) liquidity. It also makes the blockchain more accessible to enterprise-level partners and institutional investors."
Talking about how USDT-TRON is different from the existing stablecoins, the team said:
"The existing stablecoins are mainly stablecoins designed for added liquidity by exchanges, which are single-use, slow in transfer and expensive to transfer. Following the issuance of USDT-TRON, users will be able to enjoy a stablecoin with fast transfer and zero transaction fee. USDT-TRON enables the interoperability with TRON-based protocols and Decentralised Applications (DApps) while allowing users to transact and exchange fiat pegged currencies across the TRON Network."
Talking about the benefits of this new cryptocurrency, the team said:
"The issuance of USDT-TRON will also further enhance the development of the TRON DAPP ecosystem. The stablecoin will allow users to access the DAPP ecosystem with a more familiar USD concept, and therefore mitigates the effects of price fluctuations, providing a better cash-in/cash-out and risk-avoiding method for DAPPs and enabling scalable application of DAPPs."
Justin Sun, the Founder of TRON Foundation and CEO of BitTorrent said:
"USDT-TRON will firstly bring more users to the industry because it is easier for those who are unfamiliar with digital currency to understand and accept. As a result, more people will take notice of TRON, and the whole industry will benefit. We believe that with a faster, more economic and concrete stablecoin payment experience, more ordinary people will start to pay attention and use DAPPs. In addition, we will offer attractive incentives for early adopters, totalling the equivalent of 100 million RMB, to get existing USDT holders to transition to TRC20-based USDT and advance the potential of decentralized finance."
Talking about the plans for the incentives, the team said:
"From April 30 to August 7, TRON will work with world's leading digital asset exchanges Huobi, OKEx, etc. to incentivize people who convert USDT-Omni into USDT-TRON by offering attractive interest rates paid without fees in USDT-TRON. This incentive plan will continue until the beginning of August. Token holders will receive airdrop bonus on a daily basis with up to 20% annualized bonus rate."
Here's the incentive program:
The program would last for a duration of a hundred days with interest rates up to 20 percent. The best part of the whole ordeal is that it is totally free of cost so the users don't have to pay anything to get the rewards. Moreover, the prize pool is gigantic with a total amount of 20 million USD (without any cap on how much users would win).
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Federal Court Declares ObamaCare's Individual Mandate Unconstitutional
ObamaCare has always hung by an absurdity. ObamaCare supporters claim that the Constitution's words "Congress shall have the Power…To regulate Commerce…among the several States" somehow give Congress the power to compel Americans to engage in commerce. This ruling exposes that absurdity, and exposes as desperate political spin the Obama administration's claims that these lawsuits are frivolous.
This ruling's shortcoming is that it did not overturn the entire law. Anyone familiar with ObamaCare knows that Congress would not have approved any of its major provisions absent the individual mandate. The compulsion contained in the individual mandate was the main reason that most Democrats voted in favor of the law. Yet the law still passed Congress by the narrowest of all margins — by one vote, in the dead of night, on Christmas Eve — and required Herculean legislative maneuvering to overcome nine months of solid public opposition. The fact that Congress did not provide for a "severability clause" indicates that lawmakers viewed the law as one measure.
Despite that shortcoming, this ruling threatens not just the individual mandate, but the entire edifice of ObamaCare. The centerpiece of ObamaCare is a three‐legged stool, comprised of the individual mandate, the government price controls that compress health insurance premiums, and the massive new subsidies to help Americans comply with the mandate. Knock out any of those three legs, and whole endeavor falls.
Moreover, the individual mandate is not the law's only unconstitutional provision.
These lawsuits and the continuing legislative debate over ObamaCare are about more than health care. They are about whether the United States has a government of specifically enumerated powers, or whether the Constitution grants the federal government the power to do whatever the politicians please, subject only to a few specifically enumerated restraints. This ruling has pulled America back from that precipice.


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The Green Bay Film Society will present the next International Film of the semester on Wednesday, November 5th at 7:00 pm in the auditorium of the Neville Public Museum.
Kept and Dreamless
Argentina, 2005
During Argentina's economic crisis of the 90's, nine year-old Eugenia and her mother, Florencia, live a seemingly colorful life surrounded by eclectic neighbors and an offbeat collection of family. But for Eugenia, who must deal with her mother's dysfunctional and drug-addled lifestyle, life is anything but pleasant in this darkly inspiring story of expectation, acceptance and nontraditional family, led by standout performances from director Vera Fogwill and young actress Lucia Snieg.
All are welcome to attend.
More information on the Green bay Film Society may be found here.


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On the IBM developerWorks site today, there's a new tutorial by Vikram Vaswani walking through the use of the XML_Query2XML PEAR package to pull data from your SQL database and push it into an XML structure.
Ever wished for an easy way to transform SQL result sets into XML? It's a PEAR package named XML_Query2XML, and it provides a comprehensive framework to efficiently turn the results of a database query into a customizable XML document. This article introduces the package, and demonstrates useful real-world applications, including using it with XSL and XPath, combining it with data from external Web services, and creating database dump files.
They go through the installation and the steps to create the XML:
- Convert SQL to XML
- Transform XML output with XSL
- Customize XML output
- Work with SQL joins
- Filter SQL records with XPath
- Merge data from multiple sources
- Create database backups
Check out the full tutorial for an excellent guide to using this powerful PEAR package.


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Designer of the Popular Kalashnikov Rifle Dies
AK-47, Created by Mikhail Kalashnikov, Was Designed to 'Protect the Motherland' After World War II
Acclaimed a hero in the Soviet Union for creating the most popular assault rifle in history, Mikhail Kalashnikov was the namesake of the AK-47.
Mr. Kalashnikov died in Izhevsk on Monday at age 94, after a long illness, said Yelena Filatova, a spokeswoman for the gun's manufacturer, Kalashnikov Concern. She didn't give further details.
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Today I wanted to share some Easter treats I've been working on....
THIS favorite stamp of mine..
1. Stamp the bunny stamp onto white cardstock using VersaMark black ultra fine ink and sprinkle clear embossing powder on top. Shake off excess powder and heat set.
2. Using THIS frame die-cut, cut your image out to create a tag.
3. Apply some glossy accents to the tails and press on some velvet flock to make the tails "fuzzy".
4. Punch a hole on the left side of the tag and add a blue circle around the hole punched out of pool layering paper.
5. Print out "Bunny Tails" onto some white cardstock. (I used the Print Clearly Font) and mat it in the pool layering paper. Attach it to the tag.
Another fun idea for bunny tails would be white gumballs in place of the marshmallows. Speaking of bubble gum, I HAVE AN EXTRA HERO ARTS BUBBLE GUM INK PAD TO GIVEAWAY...
Thanks for stopping by! Happy Easter!
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Bunny Tails + GIVEAWAY!
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
I didn't think I would jump on the neon bandwagon, but I did. :) I recently went shopping and spotted some neon nail polish that I had to get for a friend and it inspired me to break out my neon inks and create a card to go with it....
Hero Arts Glow Girl Stamp Set and colored it in with a sparkle pen and finished it off with some metallic string that I found in the Target Dollar Spot...
Thanks for stopping by! :)
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2. Re: JBoss 7.1 identity assertionakrestan Feb 27, 2012 6:05 AM (in response to jfclere)
Dear Jean-Frederic,
what Tomasz, a colleague of mine, wrote above is about something different. I will try to explain and at the same time describe the current problems with Apache and JBoss 7.1 integration.
Integration between Apache HTTPD and JBoss 7.1 is achieved through configuration of AJP (Apache JServ Protocol) on both sides. This we can make work, but when it comes to setting up authentication and authorization and delegation of responsibilities between Apache and JBoss whe have experienced big problems, mostly because of changes in JBoss 7 compared to earlier releases:
1) ajp connector configuration used to have an attribute called tomcatAuthentication like this:
{code:xml}<connector name="ajp" protocol="AJP/1.3" scheme="ajp" socket-binding="ajp" tomcatAuthentication="false"/>{code}
This attribute is no longer supported in standalone.xml, there is actually a logged bug against this here https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1581 which has not been answered yet.
I can circumvent the problem of missing tomcatAuthentication switch by building a custom version of "org.jboss.as.web" module from the sources and making JBoss use of my modified "org.jboss.as.web". In particular in the Ajp classes (AjpProtocol, AjpProcessor, AjpAprProtocol, AjpAprProcessor) I hardcoded the tomcatAuthentication flag to "false" (default is "true"). By doing this I can make JBoss accept user identity established by Apache, instead of presenting user with the application's form based login screen. This is what I call "identity assertion". So far so good, but the story does not end here.
2) with the tomcatAuthentication flag artificially set to false, it is not possible to make use of the security-domain configuration, namely its authorization configuration. The reason here is that the JBoss's class org.jboss.as.web.security.JBossWebRealm that evaluates the user's role, delegates to the Tomcat class org.apache.catalina.realm.RealmBase. The RealmBase uses the following code:
{code}public boolean hasRole(Principal principal, String role) {
if ((principal == null) || (role == null) || !(principal instanceof GenericPrincipal)) {
return false;
The authorization evaluation will always yield false since the Principal created using the Apache's AJP13_FORWARD_REQUEST?remote_user data is of class org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyotePrincipal, not org.apache.catalina.realm.GenericPrincipal created normally during form based authentication. But the story does not end here either.
3) It is possible to turn off the Tomcat's authorization through a not very well documented feature in the jboss-web.xml DD:
This is probably meant for such situation, but the problem here is that to do this the previous versions of JBoss used a configuration element called application-policy to configure an authorization manager/permission policy, but I was not able to find out whether such configuration is still supported in JBoss 7. Because of this missing configuration the authorization process ends up with NPE.
We would sincerely appreciate if someone could shed some light to this situation for us, as to me it looks as though not much attention was paid to these things in JBoss 7. I think others must have or soon will have similar problems too.
Ales Krestan
3. Re: JBoss 7.1 identity assertionjfclere Feb 27, 2012 5:54 AM (in response to akrestan)
You have to write a Valve to add this feature.
4. Re: JBoss 7.1 identity assertionakrestan Apr 27, 2012 8:52 AM (in response to jfclere)
Hi, I am a bit doubtful about your suggestion. Could you please elaborate what it is you expect to be achieved through an implementation of Valve? I presume you are talking about org.apache.catalina.Valve.
But the integration between Apache HTTPD, JBoss, LDAP with a separate configuration of an authorization provider is, as I see it, a rather common thing and it used to be available in JBoss 6 and earlier versions. Are you suggesting that such setup configuration is no longer supported in JBoss 7 and one is supposed to write custom implementations of Tomcat or JBoss interfaces?
5. Re: JBoss 7.1 identity assertionyannickguionnet Sep 23, 2012 10:24 AM (in response to akrestan)
I have to solve something which seems similar in the sense where i have some reverse proxy which did the authentification with a trust relationship with jboss.
I can retrieve the identity in a http header, for this i write a valve but I clearly I have to assert identity to jboss and the meantime jboss must load the roles of this asserted id
but there is no such api and all seems done in the login modules. So I succeed with creating GenericPrincipal et passing it to jboss but there is abig hole in the roles area.
We need clearly an assert on the Realm used.
do you have make someprogress on you side?
6. Re: JBoss 7.1 identity assertionjs84 Nov 4, 2012 11:52 AM (in response to yannickguionnet)
I can't believe that this issue/bug ist still unresolved nearly 10 months after revealing it. We are using Apache2/mod_auth_kerb/mod_jk as an authenticating reverse proxy, passing the auhtenticated user via AJP to Tomcat or JBoss webcontainers as an approved standard SSO implementation. Because in mod_proxy the headersize is not configureable, but we need to increase it to 16 kB for the Kerberos tokens in our AD environment, mod_jk/AJP is currently the only solution.
7. Re: JBoss 7.1 identity assertionjfclere Nov 5, 2012 6:54 AM (in response to js84)
ProxyIOBufferSize 16384
8. Re: JBoss 7.1 identity assertionjs84 Nov 5, 2012 9:32 AM (in response to jfclere)
Thank you for your information! I would never have tried to do this because in the reference there is documented the following restriction: "The size must be less or equal 8192" (as I remember the same restriction had mod_jk.so up to a recent release).
But I did a slight missmatch in my posting yesterday: I have to set tomcatAuthentication="false" for the AJP connector configuration of the webcontainer, otherwise the webcontainer will never be able to fetch the forwarded authenticated user by request.getRemoteUser().
9. Re: JBoss 7.1 identity assertionakrestan Nov 5, 2012 9:41 AM (in response to yannickguionnet)
Hi Yannick,
sorry for not responding earlier. We have resolved the issue, or I should better say another colleague of mine by the name of Radek Smejkal with a little assistance from me, by following Jean-Frederic's advise. We are now testing it. I am currently having difficulty to find enough time to describe the solution concisely for the benefit of everyone, but will try to do it in the comming weeks.
10. Re: JBoss 7.1 identity assertionchrisburrell Feb 11, 2013 10:47 AM (in response to akrestan)
Hi Yannick
Has there been any movement on this?


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Typing is difficult. The letter keys are just pictures on the glass screen, so of course there's no tactile feedback.I guess we'll all have to go back to the old two-finger style of typing. (I actually know a couple people who still type like that.) Or maybe one finger, if you hold the thing in one hand. Or is there some way to squeeze all your fingers onto the screen?
The Web browsing experience is incredible.Ah! This is what I want!
You see the entire Web page on the iPhone's screen. You double-tap any spot to zoom in. Or you use the two-fingered spread-apart gesture to "stretch" the image larger, or pinch your thumb and forefinger on the glass to zoom out again. The manipulation is seamless, smoothly animated—and useful. Using Google Maps to get you driving directions and maps, for example, is just light-years simpler and more powerful than on any other machine, thanks to this "rubber Web page" stretching technology.If this thing is what it seems to be, I will happily leave the laptop at home and go about carrying next to nothing, stopping in cafés and restaurants, not giving a thought to whether there is WiFi.


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|Article Index
|UNRIC Library Newsletter - July 2011
|New information material
|New titles
|All Pages
New Websites within the UN System
E-News Department of Political Affairs, July 2011
The UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) has issued the first edition of its e-newsletter, highlighting the work of the Department and UN political missions to prevent and resolve conflict around the world. The first edition puts the spotlight on the UN's political response to the upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa.
The Millennium Development Goals
Report 2011
English http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/11_MDG%20Report_EN.pdf
Spanish: http://www.un.org/es/comun/docs/?path=/spanish/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG_Report_2011_SP.pdf
The report shows that although significant strides have been made, reaching all the MDGs by 2015 remains challenging because progress has failed to reach the most vulnerable. The report is based on a master set of data compiled by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG indicators led by the Statistics Division of the DESA.
Provisional agenda of the
sixty-sixth regular session of the General Assembly (A/66/150)
English, French & Spanish: http://undocs.org/A/66/150
The document lists a total of 166 items to be discussed at the session will be officially opened on 13 September 2011.
UN System Organizational Chart - revised
English: http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/structure/org_chart.shtml
French: http://www.un.org/fr/aboutun/structure/org_chart.shtml
Spanish: http://www.un.org/es/aboutun/structure/org_chart.shtml
German: ../../html/german/organigramm_april2011.pdf
Library Backgrounder - South Sudan
Open Days on Women and Peace and Security
UN Women, in partnership with the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA), the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), is commencing a number of "Open Days" on women and peace and security worldwide from June through September 2011. The Open Days provide a platform for local women leaders to speak directly with senior UN leaders at the country level to share their experiences, concerns and priorities as a contribution to national and regional efforts to resolve conflicts and build security.
Security Council Concept Paper:
Security Council open debate on "Children and armed conflict" - 12 July 2011
English, French & Spanish: http://undocs.org/S/2011/409
The Security Council President for the month of July, Germany, has prepared a concept paper concerning "Children and armed conflict". The paper will serve to guide the Security Council open debase on 12 July 2011.
Understanding Electoral Violence
in Asia (UNDP)
This report investigates electoral violence in Asia through analyses of case studies commissioned by UNDP for seven countries in South and South-East Asia: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand. The ultimate objective of these publications was to draw empirical lessons from each country as helpful guides for policy, legislation and institutional change to promote greater democratic governance.
United Nations Interim Security
Force for Abyei (UNIFSA)
The Security Council, by its resolution 1990 of 27 June 2011, responded to the urgent situation in Sudan's Abyei region by establishing the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).
United Nations Mission
in the Republic
of South Sudan (UNMISS)
On 9 July 2011 South Sudan became the newest country in the world. The birth of the Republic of South Sudan is the culmination of a six-year peace process. The mandate of UNMIS ended on July 9th following the completion of the interim period set up by the Government of Sudan and SPLM during the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on 9 January 2005. The Security Council has established a new mission, the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS).
The United Nations Rule of Law
Indicators: Implementation Guide and Project Tools (DPKO / OHCHR)
The Guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to implement the instrument, with United Nations support, in a conflict or post-conflict setting. It is meant for first-time users of the instrument who have a general knowledge of the United Nations system, previous experience working in such situations, a good knowledge of criminal justice institutions and a familiarity with social sciences research methods.
Food Crises and Gender Inequality (DESA Working Paper No. 107)
This paper examines the current food crises, the projected effect of climate change, the vulnerabilities created by regional concentrations of food production, imports and exports, and the significant role of women as food producers, consumers and family food managers. Bridging productivity differentials between male and female farmers, by helping women overcome production constraints, would significantly increase agricultural output. This becomes an imperative, given the feminization of agriculture. Institutionally, a group approach to farming would help women and other small holders enhance their access to land and inputs, benefit from economies of scale, and increase their bargaining power economically and socially.
Food Security Communications
Toolkit (FAO / EU)
This toolkit is geared to helping food security professionals develop a communication strategy and communicate more effectively with their target audiences. Specific sections of the toolkit focus on policy makers and the media.
Handbook for National Action Plans
on Violence Against Women (UN Women)
The Handbook presents a model framework for national action plans on violence against women, which sets out detailed recommendations, accompanied by explanatory commentaries and good practice examples.
Progress of the World's Women: In
Pursuit of Justice (UN Women)
English & Spanish: http://progress.unwomen.org/
UN Women has released its first flagship report "Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice," recognizing progress worldwide, but calling on governments to take action to end the injustices that keep women poorer and less powerful than men. The report states that the past century has seen a "transformation" in women's legal rights, with countries in every region expanding the scope of women's legal entitlements. "Nevertheless for most of the world's women, the laws that exist on paper do not translate to equality and justice," it adds. It also points out that while 139 countries and territories now guarantee gender equality in their constitutions, women continue to experience injustice, violence and inequality in their home and working lives.
UN Women Annual Report 2010-2011
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August 1, 2008
In The Papers: Late Manny Edition
26 comments:
- tim said...
Fuck whatever paper that is with the "Sox bid bum adieu - selfish slugger will fit nicely in LA-LA land"
- August 1, 2008 at 9:31 AM
- Rob said...
Heh. Something both the Yankees and Red Sox can agree on!
- August 1, 2008 at 9:38 AM
- laura k said...
Sox Bid Bum Adieu
Which has given more to us and our lives, that "bum" or that piece of rag newspaper?
- August 1, 2008 at 9:47 AM
- allan said...
Stay classy, Herald.
- August 1, 2008 at 9:52 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
The venom in the Herald piece is really excessive and inexcusable. I can see what people love about Manny, although my own admiration had its limits---I can't understand this kind of personal hatred at all. Nobody, even athletes, have an obligation to hang out with sick children. It's great when they do it and Ted's Jimmy Fund activities were admirable, but someone isn't a "bum" because they don't do what someone else regards as good deeds. Manny isn't a "bum" because he chose not to send sports equipment to his high school, as Callahan claims.(Personally, I wouldn't send a bucket of spit to my high school.) "Hey rich guy! Use your money for what I think is important, or you're a selfish scumbag!" Talk about presumptuous!
I think it was time for him to go, but the right way to end the chapter is the way Allan has, not with a lot of petty name-calling.
- August 1, 2008 at 10:04 AM
- nixon33 said...
i STILL find it weird there hasn't been a rpess conference yet!
johnny damon:
"We know we don't have to deal with Manny," Damon said. "Nothing surprises me about Boston. Not too many players leave there happy. It's very well documented going back to [Mike] Greenwell, [Roger] Clemens, Mo Vaughn and Nomar [Garciaparra].
"There's a lot of truth to what he said," Garciaparra said at his Dodger Stadium locker Thursday, two hours after the Dodgers acquired Ramirez. "I can definitely understand and relate. Maybe he'll be next to me [in an adjacent locker], and we can chat and laugh about it."
The Red Sox rid themselves of a contract dispute by trading Garciaparra at the deadline four years ago, and they rid themselves of another one Thursday.
"Manny said he didn't want to leave there," Garciaparra said. "I didn't want to leave there. . . . Were we the only ones that have gone through it? There's a track record. I played with Mo [Vaughn]. I played with Rog
- August 1, 2008 at 10:05 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
The other weird post-Manny commentary involves minimizing Jason Bay. Tim Kurkjian, for example, keeps saying that Bay is "a good, solid player, but no Manny." Well, he's had two seasons recently with 100 r, 100 rbi and 30+ homers---I'd call that better than "solid" and pretty indistinguishable from what we could expect from Manny from here on, best case scenario. The guys on XM keep saying that Bay doesn't "strike fear" into pitchers and that Ortiz will be walking a lot. Well, walking the guy in front of a 30 homer, 100 rbi guy is not smart strategy more times than not---be my guest. And if 30+ homers and 100 rbi don't scare you, what does? A nice swing? A reputation? The player's 2003 season? Dreadlocks? Manny is going from a decent hitters park to a lousy one, and Bay is going to a park that should inflate his numbers somewhat, with the likelihood of more runners being on base in front of him. Are the pundits TRYING to set themselves up to look stupid?
- August 1, 2008 at 10:16 AM
- nixon33 said...
"He is scheduled to play tonight at Dodger Stadium, where the team has scheduled an introductory press conference for 7 p.m. ET -- "on the field behind home plate."
i hope ESPN will carry it!
- August 1, 2008 at 10:17 AM
- allan said...
he's had two seasons recently with 100 r, 100 rbi and 30+ homers---I'd call that better than "solid" and pretty indistinguishable from what we could expect from Manny from here on, best case scenario
I agree.
The guys on XM keep saying that Bay doesn't "strike fear" into pitchers and that Ortiz will be walking a lot. Well, walking the guy in front of a 30 homer, 100 rbi guy is not smart strategy more times than not---be my guest.
SoSH was saying Olney was saying the same thing and actually used Tiz's September 2006 stats to prove how bad the Mannyless era would be for Boston. Papi had a 1.150 OPS (give or take a point) that month. Sounds DREADFUL! Any time the other team wants to put guys on base for us, I'll say thank you very much.
Manny is going from a decent hitters park to a lousy one
With a big-ass LF, too.
- August 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- nixon33 said...
- August 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM
- allan said...
check mlb.com for possible video of the pc, also.
- August 1, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
Shut up, Johnny. Shut up Nomar.
If players get what they want in their free-agent year, the team has treated them well and they are "happy." If they don't get raises and extra years that place all the risk on the team even when their skills are fading (Damon, Pedro, Nomar, whose range at short was pathetic at the end), then they've been "mistreated." How many years has Nomar been healthy since the Sox traded him? Anybody watched Pedro thte last two years? See much of Damon in center?
Shut up, guys.
- August 1, 2008 at 10:23 AM
- nixon33 said...
i would think that at least espn2 or espnnews would carry it!
but thanks i'll check mlb.com as well.
cant wait for the dodgers game! I HOPE HE RAKES!
- August 1, 2008 at 10:25 AM
- nixon33 said...
sportscenter is showing the never seen before manny add for espn he taped in april. they said they prolly wont air it anymore, as he's in a sox uni.
- August 1, 2008 at 10:27 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
I'm kind of surprised Manny agreed to go to LA, aren't you? It's not the best line-up to drive in runs, it is, as redsock says, a big-ass left field there. I think the odds of anyone paying him 20 mil are long no matter what, but the chances of maximizing his stats in LA seem remote. Less remote: the chances of him busting a hamstring trying to show up the Red Sox in the field or running to first, a la Mo Vaughn's ankle. Then what? This is what's so strange. The best place for Manny to get what he wanted---from somebody-- was Boston. Manny's at risk now.
- August 1, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
That ad, which was running yesterday, by the way,makes fun of the media for portraying everything Manny does as eccentric. That takes balls, given that ESPN was one of the main offenders.
- August 1, 2008 at 10:34 AM
- nixon33 said...
i might be getting ahead of myself, but i call it right now, that on aug 26 (or whenever the sox play at the toilet again) when Bay is introduced for his first at bat, the yankees fans will give him an ovation because he's not the bad man.
- August 1, 2008 at 10:39 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
Regarding whether Yankee fans welcome or don't welcome the trade: Who the hell cares?
- August 1, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- nixon33 said...
im just making a prediction, jack. last time i checked, it was ok to do so.
- August 1, 2008 at 11:03 AM
- nixon33 said...
maybe it affects me a little bit different 'cause i have tio live in the rival city at the moment and get to hear constant reaction from yanks fans.
that ok with you?
- August 1, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- allan said...
I'm kind of surprised Manny agreed to go to LA, aren't you?
I'd say his options were limited.
I hope Bay destroys the Yankees. Destroys.
- August 1, 2008 at 11:07 AM
- tim said...
I hope Bay destroys the Yankees. Destroys.
Oh yeah. I also hope Pedroia, Youkilis, Ortiz, Drew, Lowell, Varitek, Cash, Lowrie, Casey, Lugo, Coco, Ellsbury and Cora destroy the Yankees as well. Not to forget the entire pitching staff too.
- August 1, 2008 at 11:26 AM
- Jack Marshall said...
Nixon---I'm not criticizing the prediction. Predict away. Didn't mean it as criticism.
But half the commentary I see on ESPN, like from that fool Steve Phillips, is "I can tell you that in New York, Fans are high-fiving, because they won't have to face Manny."
To which I say, who the fuck cares what Yankees fans think? Will they be high-fiving if they stay in third place? Why does the reaction of Yankee fans have any impact on the analysis of whether the trade was wise or not? Is the team supposed to test market its moves according to whether it makes the Yankees happy or not?
I,for example, think it's GREAT that the Yankees are bringing in Sexon, I-Rod, Marte and Nady, essentially turning the team into a bus station when they are supposed to be settling in. Do they care what I think? Should they? Hell no.
- August 1, 2008 at 11:30 AM
- tim said...
Heh. iRod.
iRod nano...iRod shuffle....I'll stop there.
- August 1, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- GK said...
In the context of Bay destroying the Y's...
The footage of Bay that NESN showed yesterday makes me believe that his bat speed is much better than Manny's and he wont be caught looking at fastballs in the inside part of the plate.
So I would say the Y's can bring it on.
- August 1, 2008 at 12:11 PM
- andy said...
I see Manny hustling as always in left for LA tonight.
- August 1, 2008 at 8:47 PM


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He succeeds Dr. James Johnson, who was named principal conductor of Choral and Instrumental Ensembles for First Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls in summer 2011. For the 2011-12 academic year, Dr. Weston Noble, former long-time conductor of the Luther College Nordic Choir, has served as interim Choir director.
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I've sifted through everything to find the best values for your money, the rock-bottom lowest prices and the deals that really aren't. Disclaimer: Prices and availability may vary depending on where you live! Image: Microsoft, illustration: WiredWii Nintendo's new Wii U is all the rage, but the regular ol' Wii is going to be dirt-cheap this year and even has some brand-new games like Epic Mickey 2 and Skylanders Giants. If you're on a budget or buying for youngsters, it's a great deal. Best: The good news is that Sears is selling the $130 Wii bundle that includes the Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort games for just $100. The bad news is that Sears is opening for Black Friday a little early. Like, 8 p.m. on Thursday early. So you have to show up, all crammed full of turkey and booze, Thanksgiving night. Cheapest: If you just want the total rock-bottom price, Walmart and Sam's Club will be selling Wii with no games whatsoever for just $90. While you're there, apparently they'll have the UDraw tablet controller for just $10. Lie to your kids and tell them it's a Wii U. Again, though, the price starts on 8 p.m. Thursday. Nintendo has a $150 package that includes a Wii and the new Skylanders Giants game on shelves throughout the holiday (pictured). But if you hit up Walmart on Thursday night you can get the game for $39, which combined with a $90 console makes for savings of $21. Worst: Besides the fact that Best Buy seems to have no Wii price drop whatsoever, Toys"R"Us seems to have the lamest deal: Buy the Sports bundle at the regular price and get a free Lego-styled Wiimote controller plus a $10 gift card. Eh. Why even get up? That said, if you're looking to buy Wii U games for your new console, TRU has a buy-one, get-one-40-percent-off deal on Thursday and Friday. And Old Navy is actually giving away free copies of New Super Mario Bros. U to the first people in line on Friday at midnight, with a $40 purchase. Image: NintendoXbox 360 Prices on Microsoft's game console haven't fallen quite as low as Nintendo's. Quite frankly, if you'd told me back when the Xbox 360 launched at $300 in 2005 that it would be selling for $200 seven years later and that this would be considered a major discount, I would have punched you in the face. Best: If you're looking to pick up a 360 with the Kinect motion controller, the best deal is at Target. Many stores will have a holiday-only bundle (pictured) featuring a 4GB Xbox, Kinect and two games (Kinect Adventures and Kinect Disneyland), but Target's will be $200 instead of $250. Amazon will have the same deal on Thursday evening. If you could care less about Kinect (and there's a good chance of that), Best Buy has the pro gamer's bundle, featuring the 250GB Xbox and the games Forza Motorsport 4 and Skyrim for $200. Note that Skyrim is a downloadable copy, not a disc. Cheapest: Walmart will have a deep discount on the low-end 4GB Xbox 360. It'll cost $150, or $50 cheaper than normal, and include a starter pack for Skylanders. From the looks of the ad, it will also include a limited-edition green-colored "Gill Grunt" Skylander figure, which apparently hasn't been made available anywhere except this bundle. The catch: This, too, begins on 8 p.m. Thursday. Worst: Looks like it's Toys"R"Us, again; if you buy the Xbox 360 Kinect package at full price they will magnanimously give you a third-party Xbox 360 controller. Image: MicrosoftPlayStation 3 If you can believe it, Sony actually raised the price of PlayStation 3 earlier this year, introducing a new model and marking it up from $250 to $270. But it also launched an initiative to take all the guesswork out of Black Friday. It put a limited-time MSRP of $200 on a PlayStation 3 Ultimate Value Bundle (pictured), which includes the console, a disc with the first two Uncharted games, and another with the two Infamous games. 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The MSRP is $170, the same price as the base system. Best: A couple of retailers are knocking down the limited-edition bundle's price to $150 for Black Friday: Best Buy and Target. Cheapest: See above. It's $20 off the price of a 3DS even if you don't want Mario. Worst: Sears has the bundle at $170, and is offering $20 back in redeemable Sears Points if you buy it. Uh, how about I just go to Target instead? Related: Where would you even find a Sears anymore? Image: NintendoPlayStation Vita After insisting that it was far too early to drop the price on its beleaguered gaming portable, Sony announced a range of $200 Vita bundles for Black Friday. The bundles include one of three games: Assassin's Creed Liberation (pictured), Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified or Lego Batman 2. Different retailers are offering different bundles at $200. Best: Although the prices are identical, not all bundles are created equal. The Assassin's and Duty bundles include the console, the game and a 4GB memory stick. But the Batman pack does not. So go for the big value. GameStop and Amazon will have Assassin's, and Best Buy and Toys"R"Us will have Call of Duty. Cheapest: The cheapest way to buy PlayStation Vita will be to wait until the price collapses in on itself à la the Nintendo 3DS, which should be sometime in 2013. (Update: Last-minute reports indicate that Amazon will sell its Vita bundle for $180 through a Gold Box deal on Thursday at noon Pacific time. Worst: Well, technically that should be Target's Lego Batman bundle since it doesn't include a memory card but costs the same as the others. But the worst Vita bundle is the Black Ops package, because the game is pretty much terrible. Image: SonyEverything Else If you're buying any version of Skylanders, whether the Xbox 360 or Wii bundle or whatever else, you can stock up on figurines to add some volume to what's under the tree. Best Buy will have them for $3 each on Friday. Starting at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Toys"R"Us will have a buy-one-get-one-free deal on single figures. iPods, iPads and other tablets would be an entire separate feature. The Christian Science Monitor has rounded up the best deals on each of the major brands of tablet. As it turns out, there's not much wiggle room on the iPad's price this year, even for old models. This year, many retailers have introduced their own Black Friday shopping apps to compete with Amazon's Price Check. Wired Business has a wrap-up of the whole bunch of them. Most of the holiday season's biggest games can be had on Thursday and Friday for as low as $25 if you know where to look; Cheap Ass Gamer has a list organized by price. Image: Toys "R" Us


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What the US Gets Wrong About Chinese Cyberespionage. The subtitle teases the thesis: "Is it government policy in China to pass on commercial secrets obtained via cyberespionage to civil sector firms?" As you might expect (because it prompted me to write this post), the author's answer is "no."
The following contains the argument:
"Chinese actors may be particularly adept in certain stages of economic espionage, but it is almost certainly not Chinese government policy to allow the transfer of trade secrets collected by highly classified intelligence sources to its civil sector firms for non-military technologies on a wide-spread basis.
A U.S. influencing strategy toward China premised on the claim that this is China's policy would appear to be ill-advised based on the evidence introduced so far by the United States in the public domain." (emphasis added)
I find it interesting that the author concedes theft by Chinese government actors, which the Chinese government refuses to acknowledge. However, the author seeks to excuse this activity out of concern for the effect it has on US-China ties.
One aspect of the relationship between China and the US worries the author most:
"There are many ways to characterize the negative impact on potential bilateral cooperation on cyberspace issues of the "lawfare" being practised by the United States to discipline China for its massive cyber intrusions into the commercial secrets of U.S. firms. One downside is in my view more important than others. This is the belief being fostered by U.S. officials among elites in the United States and in other countries that China as a nation is a "cheater" country..."
Then, in a manner similar to the way Chinese spokespeople respond to any Western accusations of wrongdoing, the author turns the often-heard "Chinese espionage as the largest transfer of wealth in history" argument against the US:
"In the absence of any Administration taxonomy of the economic impacts of cyber espionage, alleged by some to represent the largest illicit transfer of wealth in human history, one way of evaluating it is to understand that for more than three decades it has been U.S. policy, like that of its principal allies, to undertake the largest lawful transfer of wealth in human history through trade with, investment in and technology transfer to China."
(I'm not sure I understand the cited benefits the US has accrued due to this "largest lawful transfer of wealth in human history," given the hollowing out of the American manufacturing sector and the trade imbalance with China, which totaled over $82 billion in 1Q15 alone. It's possible I am not appreciating what the author means though.)
Let's accept, for argument's sake, that it is not "official" Chinese government policy for its intelligence and military forces to steal commercial data from private and non-governmental Western organizations. How does accepting that proposition improve the situation? Would China excuse the US government if a "rogue" element of the American intelligence community or military pursued a multi-decade campaign against Chinese targets?
Even if the US government accepted this "Chinese data theft by rogue government actor" theory, it would not change the American position: stop this activity, by whatever means necessary. Given the power amassed by President Xi during his anti-corruption crackdown, I would expect he would be able to achieve at least some success in limiting his so-called "rogue actors" during the 2+ years since Mandiant released the APT1 report. As Nicole Perlroth reported this month, Chinese hacking continues unabated. In fact, China has introduced new capabilities, such as the so-called Great Cannon, used to degrade GitHub and others.
Similar to the argument I made in my post What Does "Responsibility" Mean for Attribution?, "responsibility" is the key issue. Based on my experience and research, I submit that Chinese computer network exploitation of private and non-governmental Western organizations is "state-integrated" and "state-executed." Greg Austin believes the activity is, at worst, "state-rogue-conducted." Stepping down one rung on the state spectrum of responsibility ladder is far from enough to change US government policy towards China.
Note: In addition to the article in The Diplomat, the author wrote a longer paper titled China's Cyberespionage: The National Security Distinction and U.S. Diplomacy (pdf).
I also plan to read Dr Austin's new book, Cyber Policy in China, which looks great! Who knows, we might even be able to collaborate, given his work with the War Studies department at KCL.
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An Irrelevant Thesis
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
What Year Is This?
The first excerpt discusses the relationship between the computer and the criminal.
"The impersonality of the computer and the fact that it symbolizes for so many a system of uncaring power tend not only to incite efforts to strike back at the machine but also to provide certain people with a set of convenient rationalizations for engaging in fraud or embezzlement. The computer lends an ideological cloak for the carrying out of criminal acts.
Computer crime... also holds several other attractions for the potential lawbreaker. It provides intellectual challenge -- a form of breaking and entering in which the burglar's tools are essentially an understanding of the logical structure of and logical flaws inherent in particular programming and processing systems. It opens the prospect of obtaining money by means that, while clearly illegal, do not usually involve taking it directly from the till or the cashier's drawer...
Other tempting features of computer crime, as distinct from other forms of criminal activity, are that most such crimes are difficult to detect and that when the guilty parties are detected not much seems to happen to them. For various reasons, they are seldom intensively prosecuted, if they are prosecuted at all. On top of these advantages, the haul from computer crime tends to be very handsome compared with that from other crimes."
The second excerpt describes the attitudes of corporate computer crime victims.
"The difficulties of catching up with the people who have committed computer crimes is compounded by the reluctance of corporations to talk about the fact that they have been defrauded and by the difficulties and embarrassments of prosecution and trial. In instance after instance, corporations whose assets have been plundered -- whose computer operations have been manipulated to churn out fictitious accounting data or to print large checks to the holders of dummy accounts -- have preferred to suffer in silence rather than to have the horrid facts about the frailty of their miracle processing systems come to public attention.
Top management people in large corporations fear that publicity about internal fraud could well affect their companies' trading positions on the stock market, hold the corporations up to public ridicule, and cause all sorts of turmoil within their staffs. In many cases, it seems, management will go to great lengths to keep the fact of an internal computer crime from its own stockholders...
The reluctance of corporations to subject themselves to unfavorable publicity over computer crimes is so great that some corporations actually seem willing to take the risk of getting into trouble with the law themselves by concealing crimes committed against them. Among independent computer security consultants, it is widely suspected that certain banks, which seem exceptionally reluctant to admit that such a thing as computer fraud even exists in the banking fraternity, do not always report such crimes to the Comptroller of the Currency, in Washington, when they occur, as all banks are required to do by federal law. Bank officers do not discuss the details of computer crime with the press... [A] principal reason for this kind of behavior is the fear on the part of the banks that such a record will bring about an increase in their insurance rates."
The third excerpt talks about the challenges of prosecuting computer crime.
"In addition to the problems of detecting and bringing computer crimes to light, there are the difficulties of effectively prosecuting computer criminals. In the first place, the police, if they are to collect evidence, have to be able to understand precisely how a crime may have been committed, and that usually calls for the kind of technical knowledge that is simply not available to most police departments...
Another difficulty is that not only police and prosecutors but judges and juries must be able to find their way through the mass of technical detail before they can render verdicts and hand down decisions in cases of computer crime, and this alone is a demanding task. In the face of all the complexities involved and all the time necessary to prepare a case that will stand up in court, many prosecutors try to make the best accommodation they can with the defendant's lawyers by plea bargaining, or else they simply allow the case to fade away unprosecuted. If they do bring a case to trial, they have the problem of presenting evidence that is acceptable to the court.
The fourth excerpt mentions "sophistication" -- a hot topic!
To somebody looking at the problem of computer crime as a whole, one conclusion that seems reasonable is that although some of the criminal manipulators of computer systems have shown certain ingenuity, they have not employed highly sophisticated approaches to break into and misuse computer systems without detection. In a way, this fact in itself is something of a comment on the security of most existing computer systems: the brains are presumably available to commit those sophisticated computer crimes, but the reason that advanced techniques haven't been used much may well be that the haven't been necessary."
The fifth excerpt briefly lists possible countermeasures.
"The accelerating incidence of computer-related crimes -- particularly in the light of the continuing rapid growth of the computer industry and the present ubiquity of electronic data-processing systems -- raises the question of what countermeasures can be taken within industry and government to prevent such crimes, or, at least, to detect them with precision when they occur...
In addition to tight physical security for facilities, these [countermeasures] included such internal checks within a system to insure data security as adequate identification procedures for people communicating with the computer... elaborate internal audit trails built into a system, in which every significant communication between a user and a computer would be recorded; and, where confidentiality was particularly important, cryptography..."
Now based on what you have read, I'd like you to guess in which decade these excerpts were written? By answering the survey you will learn the publication date.
I'll leave you with one other quote from the manuscript:
The fact is, [a security expert] said, that "the data-security job will never be done -- after all, there will never be a bank that absolutely can't be robbed." The main thing, he said, is to make the cost of breaching security so high that the effort involved will be discouragingly great.
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In the last year, the Treasury Department's BSA IT modernization program stood up a financial information management and analysis system that lets federal agents and regulators search millions of financial records, flag violations and pursue suspicious trends at electronic speeds.
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A much-loved teacher who was knifed to death in front of pupils was just months away from retiring.
Spanish teacher Ann Maguire, 61, was due to retire in September after working at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds for more than 40 years, chair of governors Martin Dowling said today.
Mr Dowling paid tribute to the "wonderful, dedicated teacher", as did Corpus Christi headteacher Steve Mort, who said Mrs Maguire would have opposed any move towards introducing metal detectors into schools.
The killing of a teacher as she taught her normal Spanish class has prompted calls to look again at security in British schools.
But Mr Mort said his view was that scanning arches were not necessary and people had to remember this was an "isolated" and "unprecedented" incident.
"And I think ultimately Ann Maguire herself, if she was asked that question, would strongly oppose any suggestion that we should have metal detectors in this school," he said.
Mrs Maguire went to Corpus Christi as a student and, last year, the school held a celebration of her 40 years at the school. This year, Mr Dowling said, she moved to working four days a week ahead of her planned retirement in five months' time.
Mr Mort said he last spoke to Mrs Maguire yesterday morning after a staff briefing when she was her usual "bubbly" self.
"She was enjoying the latter end of her career although I know, to Ann, that her service to Corpus Christi was not a career," the headteacher said. "She considered it to be a vocation."
Police are continuing to question a 15-year-old boy who was arrested at the school after he was detained by staff.
The school remained opened today and around 750 of the 1,000 pupils turned up for lessons. All have been offered a range of support and Mr Mort said the 30 children who were closest to the incident have been intensively supported.
Those students leaving tonight said it had been a difficult day as they recalled the events of yesterday morning.
Tia Hope, 14, laid flowers with her mother Paula.
"It was just really depressing," she said. "It was like no one could believe it had actually happened."
Tia said the head brought the children together in an assembly and told them he was proud of how mature they had all been in the last 24 hours.
Her mother said: "Everyone's still just so shocked. Mrs Maguire was one of the best teachers. I really feel for her family."
Other youngsters outside the gates stopped to look at the hundreds of bouquets of flowers which are now spread along a 50-yard stretch of the school's railings.
They said the school was alive with chat about how the youth who attacked Mrs Maguire walked from the back of the class and produced a knife before stabbing her multiple times.
They said another female Spanish teacher went to her aid.
Detective Superintendent Simon Beldon, of West Yorkshire Police, confirmed that Mrs Maguire died from multiple stab wounds.
He said: " The pupils who witnessed this incident are still being interviewed by specialist officers who are very experienced in dealing with child witnesses and will ensure that their safety is paramount.
"This is clearly an unprecedented and tragic incident which has left the school and wider community in a state of shock."
Mrs Maguire's death is thought to be the first time a teacher has been stabbed to death in a British classroom, and the first killing of a teacher in a school since the 1996 Dunblane massacre.
Mr Dowling said: " The children have been absolutely amazing this morning. We've had assemblies, services and the children have responded in a magnificent manner, as have the staff also."
Nigel Richardson, director of children's services at Leeds City Council, also paid tribute to Mrs Maguire.
He said: "Our thoughts and sympathies are with Ann's family, friends and colleagues at this difficult time.
"Ann was an amazing, inspirational teacher, and a pillar of the local community and a real asset to the city of Leeds."
Chief Inspector Nik Adams, who leads neighbourhood policing in the area, paid tribute to all the staff and pupils for coming in.
He said: "This is an horrific incident. It's unprecedented nationally but very much in this local community it's something which has caused a great deal of shock and distress, as you can imagine.
"This is very much an isolated incident. This is not part of a wider problem that exists locally here."
He said the school had been found to have "absolutely no issues in terms of weapons".
Mr Adams added that the incident was "in no way a reflection of either problems or concerns that exist in this school".
Earlier today, many of Mrs Maguire's former pupils attended mass at Corpus Christi Church, which is connected to the school.
Many were in tears as the 150-strong congregation was led in prayers for the popular teacher by Monsignor Paul Fisher.
Mrs Maguire, who was head of Year 11 at the school for more than 10 years, lived in the Moortown area of Leeds with her husband Donald, who is believed to be a retired maths teacher.
She is understood to have two grown-up daughters - professional dancer Emma, who has been a member of the Royal Ballet since 2002, and osteopath Kerry, who also trained as a ballerina.
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: "It is with deep sadness that I heard of the tragic death of Ann Maguire at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.
"Our deepest condolences are with Ann Maguire's family, friends and work colleagues, as well as the pupils at the school.
"We are shocked about the death of this dedicated and loved teacher.
"Teachers are doing vital and essential work with our children and young people every day, and they should not have to face verbal or physical violence. But we should remember that yesterday's events are extremely rare.
"When we learn more about the circumstances, it may be that there are lessons to be learned, but for now, pupils, staff and families need our support."


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A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 4, Mageia 7, PCLinuxOS, MX 19, PicarOS, Elive 3, and AntiX 13.
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How to wake up to music with Linux
Now that I migrated to Linux, I realized that you can achieve exactly the same but directly from the OS, that is, without resorting to third-party software at all.
This is the way to do it:
1. Before the OS loads, press the key that the computer tells you to get into the BIOS. It can be DEL, ESC, or any other key that the system indicates. You have to press it quickly; you will be taken to a screen that looks like this:
2. Once in the BIOS, look for the Power Management page and follow the screen instructions to get "Resume by Alarm" or "Power On Alarm".
Set the desired time. Save (normally by pressing F-10), accept (yes) and then the computer reboots.
With this, the computer will turn on by itself at the desired time as long as it is plugged to a power outlet. That should be enough if you want the computer to wake you up. However, the idea is to make it play a song that you like and launch the programs that you need. To do that, you need to set some alarms in KOrganizer.
3. KOrganizer is hidden in Mandriva 2010 Spring. To find it, go to the bottom-right panel and click on the arrow to display it. KOrganizer, which is the program that will fire the alarms you set up, is a nice organizer that works pretty much like Outlook, only that KOrganizer is not so heavy on computer resources.
4. Once you find it, click to launch it and input the date and the time. You can just select the time periods as blocks on the schedule. Once you have set the time, you need to choose whether you wan to add an event or a "to-do" task. Actually, there is little difference for our purposes, but I normally go for "Add new event".
5. The following step is very easy: the alarms. There is a red icon that indicates the reminders.
You must click the box to be able to configure reminders. Once the box is checked, some options are enabled. Click on "advanced" to configure the time. Take into account that if the event is set at 8:30AM and you choose the reminder "5 minutes before the event starts", your alarm will go off at 8:26AM.
Now, if you want the computer to play a song for you, select "sound" and look for your song.
Obviously, you have to click OK to confirm and your sound alarm will be ready. If you want to launch your browser, select "application" instead of "sound" and specify the name of your browser. You can do the same for any other program.
I hope this tutorial saves Linux newbies like me some time when there is not any to lose ;-)
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Nice tutorial...I've never used that feature, but I'm sure it is vital for other people.ResponderEliminar
Or, assuming your machine is up anyway (my workstation fetches in email every five minutes -- that keeps things awake)... You can do it all on the commandline.ResponderEliminar
Looking around, I see that 'wavplay' might not be in the repos, but there are commandline WAV players that are, so, if you're not up for the configure-make-make_install shuffle, substitute your own where I mention 'wavplay' here.
To get more than one thing happening as your wakeup event, script them (I use an X-10 module to turn on the lights here). Here's a sample wakeup.sh:
/usr/local/bin/x10 a5 on &
# let that light soak into tired eyes for 2 mins
# before the noise begins...
sleep 120
/usr/local/bin/wavplay -q /usr/share/sounds/loudnoise.wav
/usr/local/bin/mpg123 -q /home/user/Music/thrashmetal_wakerupper.mp3
export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/firefox
To run it one time, use 'at':
$ at 03:00
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 4 at Mon Sep 20 03:00:00 2010
To run it every weekday morning, use 'cron'. Run 'crontab -e' to add this line to your crontab:
00 03 * * 1-5 /usr/local/bin/wakeup.sh
When I would sleep at my computer (and wake up to it), I'd just use sleep:ResponderEliminar
sleep 18000; play deathmetal.ogg
You guys are certainly knowledgeable. I'm a Linux beginner and my tutorial is aimed at beginners ;-)ResponderEliminar
But thanks for the information. I'll give it a try!
You might also look at rtcwake command.ResponderEliminar
Do you need to set up auto login for this?ResponderEliminar
@ Nitesh Mistry,ResponderEliminar
Yes. I have auto login enabled.
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On The Road In South Sudan, Part 2
The second leg of WFP spokesperson David Orr's road trip through South Sudan takes him to refugee camps where thousands of people have come to escape conflict in the border region with Sudan. There he meets families who arrived at the camps exhausted and hungry after walking for days without food or water. To see the beginning of David's trip, Watch Part 1


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1. Blade&Soul and Diablo3
Both was launched during the period and made various issues. Especially Diablo3 claimed #1 PC Bang ranking chart with 430,000 CCU. Diablo3 also suffered from server issue, a roll-back error, balance & bug issue. Blizzard announced the restrictive refund policy for Diablo3 after Fair Trade Commission's investigation.
Blade&Soul topped Diablo3 during OBT, but stepped down to the 3rd after the commercialized service was started.
2. Nexon acquires shares from NCSoft
Nexon acquired 14.7% shares from NCSoft CEO Taek-jin Kim and became the major shareholder of NCSoft. It was huge because two among biggest Korean online game companies agreed to cooperate. On the other hand, the question around NCSoft is getting bigger because NCSoft CEO Taek-jin Kim has not revealed the use of 800 billion Won (about $700 million), which is a compensation for 14.7% shares from Nexon.
3. On restructuring
M&A was a hot issue last year. During the first half of the year, restructuring was a hot issue among Korean online game companies.
NCSoft announced its restructuring plan on the 19th of June and started accepting voluntary resignation. NCSoft will cut at least 100 employees and focus on developing games more. Neowiz Games has done restructuring and NHN is on restructuring now as well.
Restructuring is happened every year, but the atmosphere around the Korean game industry is chaotic because many people have left the industry this year more than ever.
4. PC Bang ranking Cataclysm
PC Bang ranking has not changed for many years until this year. League of Legends topped Korean PC Bang ranking on March with 13.91% occupation rate and kept staying at the top before diablo3 launching.
Diablo3 achieved 'The best PC Bang occupation rate record ever' with 38.75% and topped League of Legends. Blade&Soul claimed #1 from Diablo3 during its OBT.
5. Another Cataclysm for e-Sports
Starcraft's Brood War has dominated Korean e-Sports market for more than 10 years. However, The year 2012 is the last. Proleague hosted by KESPA (Korean e-Sports Association), will be held with Starcraft2 from October, 2012 to 2013 as well as Starleague hosted by Ongamenet.
In addition, another e-Sports icon is rising – League of Legends. Summer league of LOL The Champions will be held soon as well as World Championship in Autumn with the total prize money of $3 million.
6. Playable time select system
New protection system from game addiction called 'Playable time select system' will take effect from the 1st of July. It is the system that restricts the youth from playing game during the time that a legal representative requests.
Once the system is conducted, the youth under the age of 18 and his/her parents as a legal representative could set the game available period. If the time that parents want is collapsed with the period that a youth wants, the period selected by parents becomes priority.
Korean online game companies are needed to spend additional developing cost to apply the system into their games. Some companies request Game Rating Board to categorize their games as 'Over age 18' not to apply this system into their games because of the additional budget.
Xbox360 and PS3 are no exception. PS3 Store will be closed on the 29th because of it.
7. Items trade for Real Money
Real Money Aution House (RMAH) for Diablo3 was opened on the 13th of June in the U.S. However, Korean could not use RMAH because of the government's policy. Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (MCST) announced that the acts of trading game money, items by a company is illegal from July while it is still possible that game money and item trading between individual users.
8. Have you seen any innovation stuffs at E3 2012?
Most people from Korean online game industry were disappointed at E3 2012. There were full of games that were named after sequel or reboot. In addition, we found too much violence within games.
9. Heading for Chinese's mobile game market
Com2uS and Gamevil, two of most anticipated Korean mobile game companies, is head for Chinese mobile game market. Escape the ape and Tower Defense: Lost Earth from Com2uS was ranked #1 and #2 in Chinese App Store while Gamevil was selected as the best global mobile platform company in China.
10. Smartphone games are booming!
Wemade Entertainment, which was client based online game company once, is now focusing on developing smartphone games. Nexon, NCSoft, NHN, CJ Netmarble, Neowiz Games have made their mobile games division stronger.
Mid-sized online game companies such as Nowcom, Liveplex, Choirock Games are also declared to develop mobile games. We could easily found a new mobile game company, established by an Individual developer. The number keeps increasing now.
11. Crossfire is on fire
The revenue of Online FPS game Crossfire from China only exceeded 1,000 billion Won ($874 million) with 3.5 million CCU. Its global publisher Neowiz Games are disputing with Smilegate, developer of the game, for extending the publishing contract. The publishing contract between Neowiz Games and Tencent will be expired in summer of 2013.
Smilegate is not satisfied with Neowiz Games' sudden decision that closed domestic service of Crossfire without noticing Smilegate.


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If there is one good thing to come out of this controversy over where the US Olympic uniforms are made, it is this: That, just for an afternoon, we all got to imagine Senate majority leader Harry Reid in a wrestling singlet.
Yes, that glorious image was provided by none other than the silver-haired and bespectacled majority leader himself, who was apoplectic upon learning that the US Olympic team's uniforms were made in China. He suggested that the team should be clothed with "made in the USA" garb, even if that meant wearing raggedy singlets painted with "USA."
Now, roughly half the NBC viewing demographic would probably have no qualms about seeing Ryan Lochte wearing a singlet of any sort. And we would have had no qualms if Senator Reid had focused his fire on those silly berets Ralph Lauren insists upon Americans wearing during opening ceremonies.
But if we're really trying to bring the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) into the "outsourcer in chief" argument here, let's make something plain.
The USOC probably cares a whole lot more about what Ralph Lauren says than what Harry Reid says, and the reason is simple. Ralph Lauren gives it money and clothes. Congress gives it bupkis.
In the end, Reid and the other members of Congress who cried foul got what they wanted: Ralph Lauren said future US Olympic uniforms will be made in the US. But the ruckus put the USOC uncomfortably in the middle of a fight that it surely did not want.
The quite remarkable thing about America's medal success in the Summer and Winter Olympics is that, unlike China or Russia or Great Britain or Germany – basically every top Olympic nation on earth – the USOC gets no money from the government. While China is harvesting farms girls from remote provinces to be canoeists, gymnasts, and weightlifters – training them in state-owned facilities and paying top dollar to lure top coaches – the USOC is panhandling on the doorstep of corporate America.
Ralph Lauren? NBC? Visa? McDonalds? They are the lifeblood of American Olympic success because they pay to be associated with the brand. Reid's office probably isn't even on the USOC's speed dial.
The USOC was suitably calm in responding to the uproar, but surely what it wanted to say was: If you want American-made uniforms, Mr. Reid, we'd be happy to have you pay for them.
In fact, reading between the lines, that is precisely what it did say.
"Unlike most Olympic teams around the world, the US Olympic Team is privately funded and we're grateful for the support of our sponsors," USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky said in a statement. "We're proud of our partnership with Ralph Lauren, an iconic American company, and excited to watch America's finest athletes compete at the upcoming Games in London."
Then, as if that wasn't enough, Mr. Sandusky added: Ralph Lauren "financially supports our team. An American company that supports American athletes."
Translation: "Show me the money."
Should the USOC have insisted upon Ralph Lauren making its Olympic clothes in the US? That's hard to say. Surely, the Olympic brand gives the USOC some bargaining power, but in the end, it's the USOC who needs Ralph Lauren more than the reverse. And this is hardly new. The outfitter for US team gear during the ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Games – which were on American soil, no less – was the Canadian company Roots.
Perhaps it's not surprising that Reid, a former boxer, came out swinging at Olympics time. Maybe he just got the old tang of the gym in his nose. Or perhaps he really wants the entire US team to wear singlets.
But his comments, as well as those from other members of Congress, threatened to cast the US Olympic movement as a villain at a time when it is achieving something extraordinary – maintaining Olympic excellence without burdening taxpayers.


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Vanessa Paradis was at the Cabourg Romantic Film Festival this weekend where she looked SO beautiful and was presented with the Swann d'Honneur. Johnny Depp was not around. He insisted last month that they're still together. Click here for a refresher. No one seemed particularly convinced and there are those who still believe that Johnny hooked up with his Rum Diary co-star Amber Heard ... who is a lesbian. Because there's no such thing as a hot lesbian? Because every hot lesbian can be turned? Every lesbian period can be turned? Do people walk around expecting Neil Patrick Harris to leave David Burtka one day for Sofia Vergara if she was interested? This is infuriating. And it's also f-cking ignorant. Not that I don't think Johnny Depp didn't step out on V, but using the rationale "Amber's too hot to stay a lesbian when she could have Johnny" is just about the dumbest sh-t I've ever heard. Also, if it were up to me, I'd never, EVER risk Vanessa for Amber. Maybe Amber in 10 years when she's had time to marinate. But how many times do I have to tell you that gap is SEXY?
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